Imperialism
wants to leave the peoples of Turkey and the world disarmed, hopeless and
without belief! We will not let imperialism experience this victory!

VICTORY
WILL BELONG TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD WHO RESIST AND FIGHT!

BECAUSE WE
ARE THERE!

People of
Turkey and the world

We reject
peace with imperialism and fascism and the giving up of weapons

Because
peace and giving up weapons is SURRENDER

We announce to our people and the peoples of
the world that:

All
policies called “peace processes” are DECEIT and SURRENDER.

Let us
reject peace-making and disarmament with the exploiters and the tyrants!

Our people!

All “peace”
in the 20th and 21st century proved that:

ALL THE BLOOD THAT FLOWED IN GUERRILLA WARFARE
AND THE ARMED STRUGGLE WAS NOT A CAUSE, IT WAS A RESULT!

Everywhere
that weapons were given up, the blood DID NOT CEASE TO FLOW!

REMOVING
THE RESULT DID NOTHING TO REMOVE THE CAUSE!

The way is
obvious:

There is
only one way to stop the blood of the peoples flowing, to stop the tears of the
mothers:

TO TEAR
DOWN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TYRANTS WITH REVOLUTION AND ESTABLISH PEOPLE’S
POWER!

Revolution
is the only road, the road of revolution is the road of our Party

The road of
liberation for the peoples of Turkey was drawn by the Party-Front, the road was
shown by Mahir and his followers using their own blood. We call on the peoples
of Turkey to unite and fight under the leadership of our Party.

1972: We were in Kizildere. We said: “We did not
come here to turn back, we came here to die…” We died. We wrote the manifesto
of revolution.

1978: We set up a flag in opposition to denial and
liquidation and said, “Our road is the road of Cayan” and we fought.

1984: We said “We will not surrender” and we became
a flash of lightning in the darkness.

1992: We said “Our flag will fly in the four corners
of the country” and it did.

1994: We said it was now the time. It was now the
time for the Party and the Front that will be the leadership of the peoples of
Turkey on the road of liberation.

1990-2000: When our base was surrounded, we said “When did
you ever see us surrender?” We died smiling when we were surrounded. We gave
history traditions and legends as a present.

2000-2007: Imperialism said, “Either change your beliefs
or die,” and like in Kizildere we died but were not defeated. We died 122
times, we bore the honour of giving life to revolution, socialism and
Marxism-Leninism.

2017: In a world in which giving up weapons,
surrendering and liquidation are dominant, and we asked, “What can three
unarmed guerrillas do?” We were surrounded with our weapons by flames. Every
bullet we fired hit imperialism, surrender and liquidation.

2018: In the face of policies of the enemy that aim
to destroy us down to our bones, the Bilgehans and Leylas wrote history with
bullets and rockets: “War Until
Liberation!”

1 – IMPERIALISM WANTS TO MAKE MINDS SURRENDER

The 1900s
were a century which saw the biggest changes in the world, economically,
politically, socially, culturally, militarily, ideologically and
scientifically. During this century, the socialist system opened the way up to
economic, political, social and scientific developments, gaining dynamism all
over the world, and there were national and social liberation movements.

A world
without socialism and national and social liberation movements is like a star
that has been extinguished. This is the world’s real doomsday.

Imperialism
in the 1990s and after 2000 ensured political and military superiority with
plots in the socialist countries, unleashing counter-revolutions, getting a
significant number of national and social liberation movements to surrender.
But this was not enough for imperialism. During these years, imperialism
implemented its basic policy, one of forming minds so they would surrender.

Unless
imperialism’s policy of making minds surrender is evaluated correctly, it is
not possible in practice to evaluate anything correctly. Neither imperialist
occupations, which were not solely about oil, nor the massacre of December 19
(2000), which was not simply about imposing a particular prison model.

The basic
aim of imperialism in the last 30 years is to make minds surrender, so that
among the peoples there is no resistance to imperialism, no struggle is waged,
and the mentality is created that revolution is not possible.

This was
the aim of the December 19 massacre.

This was
the aim of the embargo practised against Iraq, resulting in the death of
500,000 children.

This was
the aim of the occupation of Iraq.

This was
the aim behind ripping the Balkans apart.

This was
the aim behind NATO BOMBING Libya so that not one stone remained on top of
another.

This was
the aim behind hanging Saddam and lynching Gaddafi.

This was
the aim behind the “terrorism lists”.

With all
these policies, imperialism wants to make resistance to it IMPOSSIBLE.

In our
world today, no-one is to BE ABLE TO TAKE A STAND AGAINST IMPERIALIST PRESSURE.

Those who
do will be made to pay a price…

By influencing their minds, they want to bring about the
surrender of all forces, countries, organisations and individuals opposed to
imperialism.

With these policies, imperialism has got a
great many countries and organisations to surrender. “We do not say anything about the USA in
Kurdistan creating stability for itself in the region. It can create order
according to its own interests.” (Ozgur
Politika, June 20, 1999) This was said by the PKK and people like Cemil
Bayik. Quite a few guerrilla movement leaders put on white shirts and shook
hands with the murderers.

But imperialism could not achieve a definite
success with this policy.

Because if
there is even one force in the world, one political movement that does not
accept this pressure, imperialism has
not achieved final victory. And at that point, with our heads held high, we
can say before the peoples: WE ARE HERE!

2 – WE ARE HERE!

In the face
of all attacks by imperialism, military, political, psychological and
ideological, at the cost of being on our own, we have not deviated from
Marxism-Leninism, we have not given up on our claims to revolution and our
belief in socialism.

Without
facing up to being on our own in the world, it is not possible to bring the
peoples to revolution and reach socialism.

In today’s
world, unless you defend Marxism-Leninism and face up to physical annihilation,
creating an independent homeland and establishing revolutionary people’s power
are not possible.

We have
this willpower, this ideological clarity. And we say with this strength and
confidence that:

WE ARE HERE, in opposing a “new world order” of imperialism
that in truth contains nothing new.

WE ARE HERE, in the face of an injustice that means three
monopoly capitalists have more income than the entire continent of Africa.

WE ARE HERE, against policies that seek to make the world’s
peoples surrender to hunger, unemployment, narcotics, prostitution and
gambling.

WE ARE HERE, against IMPERIALIST OCCUPIERS who have
massacred millions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, all without any just or
legitimate pretext.

WE ARE HERE, against imperialist policies that seek to
imprison the peoples within the system by means of parliamentarianism, which
means betrayal of the peoples in favour of collaboration with the USA and EU.

WE ARE HERE, with the banner of Marxism-Leninism against those
who say “the age of revolutions is over, socialism is dead.”

WE ARE HERE, against some who deceive the world’s peoples
with the “democracy game” while others seek to intimidate the world’s peoples
with NATO, the UN, the EU and all international imperialist institutions.

WE ARE HERE, continuing to say that the only road of the
peoples to liberation is armed struggle wages with courage and determination
and aimed at achieving power.

As the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party and
Front, for 24 years we have fought against imperialism and the oligarchy.

From the
point of view of the ideological struggle, it is necessary to expose the
content of “peace” politics that deceive the people and are promoted by all
those left forces that are part of imperialism and its system.

The minds
of all national and social liberation fighters of the people and the world must
be liberated from these deceivers.

Our
statement on the anniversary of our Party’s foundation has brought up this
subject for this reason.

3 – THE DEMAND FOR PEACE, LEGITIMATE FROM THE
POINT OF VIEW OF THE PEOPLES, IS SURRENDER FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF POLITICAL
MOVEMENTS

ONE: The demand for peace is a legitimate one from
the viewpoint of the peoples. The rightfulness and legitimacy of the peoples’
demand for peace comes from thousands of years of pain and tears.

The duty of
a revolutionary political leadership is not to belittle or ignore the demand of
the people, it is to show the way to end the flow of blood and tears. For this
reason, it is a historical and class demand to want to put an end to all the
pain of the Kurdish people, the peoples of Latin America and all the peoples of
the world.

This is
what differentiates the demand for peace of the people from that of the petit
bourgeois sections who hoist the banner of peace and have shown no
self-sacrifice in war. The peoples have known how to die by the tens of
thousands, the hundreds of thousands, the millions, for the sake of wanting
peace and for national and class liberation. In the Anatolian Liberation War,
the peoples of Anatolia, and in the 1st Imperialist War the Soviet
peoples on the one hand demanded peace, on the other they fought and died.

In the
world of our day, there is nothing that will bring freedom, independence,
justice, equality and prosperity to the peoples, Revolutionaries and patriots
have the duty of explaining this to our people.

TWO: In a period in which imperialism hasoccupied
countries to spread its sovereignty all over the world, has carried out
massacres in country after country where people have resisted and fought, has
legalised putting bounties on peoples’ heads by means of terrorism lists, and
has raised economic injustice to unheard of heights in human history, for any
political movement to defend “peace” and bow down to imperialism is the
negation of the peoples’ rightfulness and legitimacy.

4 – THOSE WHO EXPLOIT THE PEOPLES CANNOT STOP
THE BLOOD FROM FLOWING!

The demand “stop the flow of blood or the
tears of mothers” is an abstract demand. In particular these two questions must
be posed:

-Who is causing whose blood to flow?

-Who is causing mothers to weep?

The blood
of the peoples has been made to flow for thousands of years. The cause why the
blood of the peoples flows is the repression and tyranny of the exploitative
classes.

They cannot
exploit without spilling blood and cannot rule without spilling blood.

To look at
the European imperialist countries and object, “Look, they are also exploiters,
but they do not kill their own peoples” is to recall the reality of
imperialism. They also spill blood. They have spilled blood over and over to an
exponential degree in whatever neo-colonial country and are able to spill more.
Not in their own countries but in neo-colonial ones.But from examples we know that if imperialism
sees fit for the sake of continuing its own exploitation, it will not hesitate
to slaughter its own people as well.

In that
case the “stop the blood” demand is a rejection of the class struggle. The only
way for the peoples to stop the blood is TO REMOVE THE GOVERNMENTS THAT SPILL
BLOOD. This is revolution.

5 – EVERY PEACE AGREEMENT IS SURRENDER TO THE
WILL OF THE ENEMY

War is a
clash of wills. Those who enter into conciliation, surrender, liquidation have surrendered their will to
the enemy. Lack of will is political death.

The will of
those who are Marxist-Leninists is to prefer to fight.

Our weapons represent our willpower.

Our weapons protect and strengthen our willpower.

The
guerrilla army that fights for the revolutionary power of the people is the armed willpower of the people.

The
guerrilla war is that of the people against imperialism and fascism. There
cannot be a war without the guerrillas. There is no unarmed guerrilla.

Guerrillas
are the defenders of the history of the people and constructors for the
people’s future. We will not give up
guerrillas and we will not give up weapons. A weapon is not a heap of iron.

A weapon isan
eye that destroys the brain of the enemy, a determination that is merciless
towards the heart of the enemy. Everything is a weapon, supplied by life and by
nature and accessible to the people. This is the greatest of weapons, it leaves
the mightiest of weapons helpless. We have learned this from our history. This
is our anti-imperialist, anti-fascist knowledge.

Unilateral
disarming by guerrillas, unilateral cease-fires are, from a historical,
political and military understanding SURRENDER
OF ONE SIDE TO ANOTHER. THEY ARE THE GIVING UP OF WAR.

In no peace
or conciliation process are there truly
“sides” and a “table”. The
“table” is for show. One side gets
the other to bow to its will. All such processes are characterised by one side
getting the other to concede its will.

The document on lack of will; 56 in 57: The course of FARC’s negotiation
with the government of Colombia make this very clear.

The
government of Colombia with FARC prepared and agreed a 57-paragraph plan “at
the table”. Both sides signed the agreement.

But the
government of Colombia, on the pretext that a referendum had rejected it,
changed the agreement from 57 to 56 (that is, one paragraph was omitted) and
put in front of FARC.

FARC which
had abandoned its weapons and accepted the will of those opposite will be able
to do nothing.

Without
objection, the plan prepared by the oligarchy of Colombia was accepted. Can we
really call this an “agreement” now?

There is no
“agreement” in any peace process. The only reality is surrender. To get the
peoples to accept surrender, a theatre performance of “agreements”, “tables”,
“negotiations” is put on.

The state
of Colombia killed something lie 500 members and supporters of FARC during the
“peace negotiations, despite this, FARC was unable to show its will by
rejecting the “negotiations”. Because as we have determined, by sitting down at
the table at all it SHOWED ITS LACK OF WILL.

The example of lack of will in El Salvador: The People’s Liberation War in El
Salvador – in January 1992 under the supervision of the UN, this war was ended
by a “peace agreement” in Mexico City signed between the FMLN and the
government of El Salvador. 75,000 people had died in the civil war in El
Salvador.

In the
“agreement” some of the most important agreements were these three:

-The
National Police, the National Guard and the Treasury Police were dissolved:

-The
army would be reconstituted in line with civil authority and the law:

-A
justice commission would be empowered to determine the guilty and put them
before a court.

The first
two paragraphs were not implemented. Even so, the justice commission was
established. The commission issued its report on March 15, 1993. In documents
in relation to 22,000 people murdered, disappeared or tortured, the names of
the guilty were determined.

So what happened after that?

The report
was issued on March 15, 1993.

On March
20, 1993, just 5 days after the
report was issued, the government issued an “unconditional general amnesty to
all the murderers, torturers and people who made others disappear. The
government said, “What peace!?”

And FMLN,
disarmed, toothless, its claws removed and without willpower, could not say a
word against these developments.

In the
course of two years after the “peace”, 36 members of the FMLN were murdered by
contra-guerrillas. There would be no revenge by the FMLN, it had no weapons
with which to demand a reckoning. Their minds did not even contain such a
thought. After every murder they signalled their “indignation”.

6 – GUERRILLA WARFARE IS NOT THE REASON BLOOD
FLOWS, BUT THE RESULT. IF THEY ABANDON WEAPONS, THE BLOOD OF THE PEOPLE
CONTINUES TO BE SPILLED

Stopping
guerrilla warfare (with cease-fires or peace) removes neither results nor
cause. AS THE CAUSE REMAINS, blood continues to flow in different ways. When
guerrilla warfare has ended with “peace”, that is, surrender, this has been the
case in every country.

-In
the “peace period” in El Salvador, the number of people killed actually leaves
behind the number killed in the most violent period of the civil war, 1981-84.
An El Salvador citizen says the following: “The situation is worse than before…
Before if you did not involve yourself in politics you were not killed, now you
can even be killed in your house.” Investigations reveal that many of the
killings occur in the home or on the street and those who are killed ar among
the youngest victims in the world. (Central American University, 1997 El
Salvador Report)

-In
2016, there continued to be 15 murders a day.

-South Africa is one of the prime examples were
“peace” did not stop blood from flowing.

One of the
“bloodiest” periods in South African history took place after ANC leader Nelson
Mandela left prison in 1991 as part of the “peace process” and the election
victory of the ANC in 1994.

In this
period dozens of the leading cadres of the ANC were killed on the street, and
fascist state terror killed about 20,000 people. The ANC could not say to this,
“continue the war”.

The “peace”
after the ANC entered government is quite striking: the number of murders when
the AKP is in government is greater than before.

In the year
1995 alone there have been 220,990 common law attacks, with 26,637 people
killed. His figure is more than the “political deaths” in the 10 years between
1984 and 1994. In the same year, with “peace”, there were 47,506 rapes and
120,952 thefts. So in the peace conditions of 1995, 52 people were killed every
day and every 30 minutes there was a rape in South Africa.

This is
peace!

The cause
of these deaths is the development of organised crime, its establishment within
the state, impoverishment and corruption.

The armed
liberation struggle of the people was a barricade to these kinds of crimes.

These
figures in the peace process prove this to be true.

One other
figure from South Africa – “After ‘peace’ the life expectancy contracted by 12
years.” (Mandela’s Africa: Poverty,
Hunger and Massacres.)

Another country with “peace”: Northern Ireland

During the
civil war in the north of Ireland, 3,600 people in total were killed. In 1998
the IRA ceased its armed struggle.

From 1998
to 2014 a total of 3,859 people committed suicide. With the “peace process” the
suicide rate doubled.

Is this a
coincidence? Certainly not.

Hopelessness,
a loss of ideals, poverty and a sense of helplessness cause this depression.

The example from Guatemala: After the peace this is reported:
“Yes, during the war there were deaths but now
there are more…And this
violence is greater than before. Much more in whole country… You can have
someone removed for 30-40 quetzals… The government is hand in hand with the
mafia… A great part of the state is involved with the narcotics trade… The drugs
trade is the reason for all this violence… (Guerrilla
Peace, pages 117-118)

Mafia and
fascist gangs act freely, poverty drives people to their knees and the people
die and there is no force acting against this.

-In the example from Colombia the
figures say the same:

In the year
FARC gave up its guns, before many months had passed, narcotics gangs, other
Mafiosi and counter-revolutionary groups began to sow terror among the people.
In the country the number of confiscations from the people increased by five
times over in the period 2007-2015. In the period 2014-2015, executions of
those involved in the democratic struggle, directors of human rights
foundations and village leaders increased by 13%.

Gangs
called “Bacrim” have taken over areas that the guerrillas dominated and they
attack the people.

In the 10
countries with the highest murder rates, these countries where guerrilla war
was ended with “peace agreements” can be found:

-El
Salvador: In every hundred deaths, 41.2 are the result of murder.

-Guatemala,
39.9%

-South
Africa, 31%

(May 21,
2017, from the press)

As is seen, when the weapons fall silent, that is, the
guerrilla war is ended, the blood does not cease to flow.The war on the people continues in various forms.What does not continue is the people’s
war for liberation.

Other
examples can be given of “peace agreements”. For example, in some “peace
agreements” land reform is written into the text. But to the present day not
one metre of land has been seen to be redistributed.

Legal
reforms and constitutional changes are written into “peace agreements”. None
have been implemented.

Because
there are no conditions for implementing them.

One side
has surrendered. The other has achieved the surrender of its rival in the class
struggle.

The side
that has surrendered has no more will left and there is no reason for its
demands to be accepted.

For that
reason, since the 1980s, on a world scale we can say that all the “peace
agreements” we have examined have not been “peace agreements”. The agreements
were merely called that as a means to
MAKE SURRENDER ACCEPTABLE AND AS A POLICY TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLES WITH THAT
OBJECTIVE.

AGREEMENT FINISHES THE MOMENT IT IS SIGNED!

Because
henceforth the white flag has been
raised and the defeated bow down before
those who defeated them.

A peace
agreement for this reason, for a guerrilla movement that has given tens of
thousands of martyrs in war against imperialism and fascism means defeat,
humiliation, crushing and helplessness.

7 – GUERRILLA WAR IS HOPE OF LIBERATION FOR THE
FUTURE, AND A BARRICADE AGAINST FASCISM AND CORRUPTION BEING EXPERIENCED IN
THIS PERIOD

A former
guerrilla in Guatemala was asked about the difference between before peace and
after by a journalist, and he answered:

“…At that
time we had hope because we held weapons in our hands… Today we have nothing.”

This is the
summary of what “peace” is – the hopelessness of the peoples.

To deprive
the peoples of hope is an ideological attack.

There are
three important results of guerrillas giving up weapons:

1-In a place where guerrillas
surrender and give up their weapons, mafias and gangs fill the vacuum left by
the guerrillas.

2-In a place where guerrilla warfare
has ended, religiosity, fatalism, nationalism and forces for the system gain
strength.

3-In a place where guerrilla warfare
has ended, the swamp of corruption quickly covers a greater area.

All of these are inevitable results.

We always hear that:

“The hardest war is
peace”, “making peace is harder than making war”, “persistence in peace”, “silencing
weapons takes a great effort of will”…

All of these words are the darkest demagogy, they are lies and deceit.

There is no persistence here in opposing the
ruling classes. On the contrary, there is a tendency to take shelter in the
justice system of the ruling class.

In no peace agreement have the weapons FALLEN
SILENT.

All that is silent is the weapons of the
people. The weapons of fascist governments continue to speak and all reformist,
opportunist surrender merchants who sign the peace agreement know this truth
well and accept it.

This year on Newroz and March 8, International
Women’s Day, all opportunist and reformist sections joined together in chanting
the slogan of “peace” again. They wanted peace. In the class struggle, under
the attacks of AKP fascism they repeated this refrain but there was no sense or
political process to it. The slogan of peace was henceforth a slogan devoid of
politics.

-Those
who lack politics when confronting imperialism and fascism,

-Those
who have no politics in the face of Kurdish nationalism and collaboration

Continue to talk of “peace”.

This is corruption born from the vacuum
produced by cease-fires, withdrawal abroad and collaboration with the USA and
in no way is the Kurdish nationalist movement on the agenda.

Only the
Front is there opposing mafia gangs, religiosity, nationalism and corruption.
Because only the Front continues war and fighting with determination.

8 – “PEACE” POLITICS ARE A BETRAYAL OF MARTYRS

REVOLUTION IS OUR PROMISE TO OUR MARTYRS AND WE
WILL KEEP OUR PROMISE!

The flags
of the struggle for liberation of the peoples of the world from imperialism and
fascism are their martyrs. Every
price that is paid, every life that is given, is within their ideals when they
set out on the road. Whoever gives up on
these ideals and aims IS BETRAYING THE MARTYRS.

In El
Salvador, in Guatemala, in Mexico, from FARC giving up its weapons to the case
of the PKK, when tens of thousands have given their lives those who GIVE UP ON
the cause of national and class liberation are clearly and openly betraying
their martyrs.

When they
have given their lives for their ideals, sitting down at the peace negotiating
table with imperialists and fascist
dictatorships is surrender.

The history
of the peoples’ struggle for freedom is written in the blood of our martyrs.

We owe it
to them at every moment when we keep our heads held high.

Our martyrs
have opened the way to independence and freedom for us.

We owe the
horizons we walk towards for the blood they have shed.

Between March 30 and April 17, these are for us
the historic days for commemorating our martyrs of revolution.

Their
existence is a constant reminder to us what war and peace mean.

To make peace with those who killed them is betrayal of them, our ideals and
our people.

In these
conditions, when winds of betrayal, surrender and liquidation blew from all
points of the compass, and martyrs were betrayed in a number of countries:

WE ANNOUNCE THAT WE RESPECT THE MARTYRS OF OUR
HISTORIC FIGHT AND STAND UP FOR ALL THE MARTYRS OF THE WORLD’S PEOPLES WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES FOR INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM.

No martyr
who gave his or her life for the peoples died in vain. WE GIVE OUR WORD TO ALL
MARTYRS to be the representatives of all who long for independence, democracy
and socialism, bread and justice.

REVOLUTION
IS OUR PROMISE TO OUR MARTYRS.

Up to the
present we have not violated our promise, nor will we afterwards. We will keep
our word. Keeping our word means fighting until liberation.

This is why
we will always stay far away from peace, conciliation and the giving up of
weapons.

From the June 1, 1971 resistance in Maltepe, we broke through 50 years of
revisionism with 51 hours of our resistance, such great resistance that the
martyrs are the reason for the open stand we take against conciliation and
liquidation.

Our martyrs
are our mind, our martyrs are our heart, our martyrs are our soul, our martyrs
are our horizon, belief, our martyrs are our anger and our failure to be
reconciled. Our martyrs are the total of all values of history and the people.
Our martyrs are the creators and owners of 48 years of our history. It is our
martyrs who first marked out the road we would go down and determined the
stages of the journey.

Our martyrs
in Kizildere marked out the path. Between 1978 and 1980, we toughened the
anti-fascist struggle with our martyrs. In 1984, 1996 and 2000-2007 our
direction was determined by the Death Fasts. In 1992 in Ciftehavuzlar the resistance was a
flag waving to determine the road for revolution and socialism. From the Dersim
mountains to the Taurus mountains, from the Aegean to the Black Sea, our
martyrs irrigated the mountains with their blood, and they were the name of our
persistence on the path of the people’s liberation war.

For us they
are not simply the “past”.

If that
were the case, we would simply be like all opportunist, reformist and
nationalist movements.

No, our
martyrs are our today. They are an ideological force for our line.

They are a
political victory for our line.

Our line is
Marxism-Leninism, socialism, proletarian dictatorship.

9 – THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S LIBERATION
PARTY-FRONT HAS BEEN ON THE ROAD OF LIBERATION FOR 48 YEARS

Today,
whether friend or enemy, a very brad section has had to accept that the Front
line, with workers, public workers, Free Prisoners, youth, poor inhabitants of
the city neighbourhoods, friends and family of prisoners, architects, engineers
and lawyers, the crippled, militias and fighters is the only force that RESISTS UNDER ALL CONDITIONS.

The Front’s
civil servants resist, so do the architects. The children of the Front resist,
so do the 70-year-olds. The Front resists in the schools and in the city
neighbourhoods. In the armed and in the unarmed sphere. Nearly all the legends
of the revolutionary struggle in Turkey bear the stamp of the Front.

Why is this the case?

This is a
question we ask a great deal.

This is
also a question that reformism, revisionism flee from and fear to answer.

We are the
continuation of the People’s Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C)
established in December 1970 under the leadership of Mahir Cayan and his
friends.

From that
day to this, we have chosen the most militant traditions of the world
revolutionary movement, the most heroic examples of struggle in the history of
the peoples of the world as our guide.

Mahir said
the following at the time:

“Someone who wants to
inherit the past, the resolute and irreconcilable struggles of the past, today
is obliged to pursue the correct revolutionary line and hold high the
revolutionary banner of the proletariat.

…

Today, whoever holds
aloft the exalted flag of Lenin in both theory and in social practice, holding
it high in the face of the attack by imperialism and opportunism, will be… the
historical continuation of the Marxist movement in Turkey!”

The chief
link in the world revolutionary movement in Turkey is the Front.

Opportunism
and reformism, every time they come under severe pressure, will not take their
examples from the resistance traditions of the people but will seek “backward”
examples, or examples of “conciliation” and present these as a “model”. From
history these types of models of conciliation and surrender are turned into a
theory. During the First Imperialist War, Lenin’s Brest-Litovsk agreement, the
step backwards from socialist construction called the “New Economic Policy” and
Stalin’s agreement with Nazi Germany are given as examples.

But none of
these are examples of their conciliatory tendencies that will explain their
surrender. Because there is no tendency to surrender in any of them.

And essentially
this is how history has looked at them.
But they are looking at history as a “pretext” to justify their own
conciliation and tendency to surrender.

For our
part, we in all our resistance, have
looked at the history of the peoples to see what we could find to strengthen
our resistance. We have found legends and carried them into the present.And in carrying them we have written
new legends and every time we have grown a little more.

We have
always been clear ideologically. In the
class struggle ideology functions at the same time asa headquarters. Our headquarters has been affected by no attacks or
encirclements.

For this
reason, we have been the only ones resisting fascist juntas, martial law and
states of emergency.

10 – THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE
IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THE BLOOD AND TEARS OF THE PEOPLE FROM FLOWING.

THE ROAD OF LIBERATION OF OUR PARTY IS THE ONLY
ROAD

Again, in
the 1970s, Mahir wrote:

“However much the
terror of the oligarchy grows, however violent it is, our Party’s guerrilla
warfare will continue. The road of our Party is the road of revolution. The
road of revolution is the road of our Party.”

The peace
policy:

-Is
a policy for those who have lost courage and will for a war against imperialism
and fascism,

-For
those who do not have the aim of power of who have broken away from it

-And
is resorted to by those who do not believe in revolutionary people’s power and
socialism.

This policy
can solve none of the problems of the people.

This policy
can never bring the peoples to independence, democracy and socialism.

Imperialism
has not changed. Fascism has not changed. Against imperialism and fascism the
only road to liberation of the peoples is people’s war.

War is
necessary.

It will be
won at a great price.

But if this
war is not waged, the peoples will thrash around in hunger, poverty and
unemployment, sink into the swamp of corruption and be dragged into misery and
despair.

The way to
prevent this is to fight for liberation.

What does
liberation mean?

It is for
our people to be free and our homeland to be independent.

For this,
the fascist government must be torn down and imperialism driven off.

This is not
possible without waging armed struggle and the army of the people having weapons.

Peoples of Turkey and the world!

Let us arm
ourselves against imperialism and fascism.

Let us move
forward on the road of liberation.

The armed
struggle is a necessity. It is the only road to liberation.

Comrades:

We have
taken on the burden of revolution. Our burden is also heavier in the
encirclement by imperialism and AKP fascism. Our shoulders must be as strong as
our ideology.

This is the
picture presented by the world and by our country. We are the hope of the
world’s peoples and our own.

We will
build up hope with the labour, the courage and the will of all our comrades.
This is our historic duty.

Our Party;

Will
continue to be the defender of the only road of liberation for the peoples,

Defend
revolution and socialism,

Defend independence,
democracy and socialism,

And reject
conciliation with imperialism and the tendency to surrender.

DOWN WITH CONCILIATION, THE TENDENCY TO
SURRENDER AND THE POLICY OF LIQUIDATION

WAR UNTIL LIBERATION

KIZILDERE IS THE ROAD OF LIBERATION AND THERE
IS NO TURNING BACK FROM IT!